Blue-white porcelain dish decorated with a dragon and a carp, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722) Decorated in the center with a four-clawed dragon emerging from foaming waves, and on the left with a carp emerging from crashing waves, exhaling from its mouth a halo containing the drawing of a stylized dragon, symbolizing the transformation of the carp into a dragon, according to the famous legend. The marli is also decorated with waves, while the reverse features a "mandarin, mark of honor" within a double circle. The reverse is decorated with four Buddhist symbols. Diameter: 27.5 cm